Musings and advance comic book artwork from Chris Ryall, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of IDW Publishing

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Covering ANGEL 27

ANGEL 27 is easily the funniest issue of ANGEL I've ever worked on. It's also a fitting kind-of end to Brian Lynch's run on ANGEL (kind of, I say, because there's still the ANGEL ANNUAL to come, and then a SPIKE series) because it includes so many of the things he did so well on his entire ANGEL run, only in much more amusing fashion than many of the grim tidings he had to deal with during AFTER THE FALL.

Because I don't often show finished, logo'd covers here, I thought I'd show these, since the images haven't been seen online much in any fashion. First here is Nick Runge's variant cover:

And then interior artist Stephen Mooney's cover. The issue itself should be in stores just before Halloween.

Fantastic covers!! The likeness to the original characters is incredible! I can't wait for theses issues! I'm huge fan of Spike and Angel and I love to see them together again! Sorry, but I didn't like Aftermath at all – the story and the art were... uhhhh...And I can't wait for the new Spike's series!